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Agenda Item 9: Municipal Services Committee
Comment 4:
Current advanced technologies are surpassing old ideas of what is possible. The report (p.3) states that community composting hubs are limited in capacity of only 75 households and that household are only 3% of the City's generated volume.
This statement does not take into account proces sing capacity and capabilities of recent composting technologies installed at the Rose Bowl Stadium capable of processing meat products and at high volume.
These technologies have been designed to mitigate perceived nuisances typically associated with commercial and backyard composting. They are also designed to process high volume on a much smaller footprint for urban application. This is what the City needs to begin investing in and figuring out what would be the right mix of composting technologies.
Community 2.0 will be mobilizing thousands of Pasadenans to engage in activities such as composting to reduce Green House Gasses. WE NEED EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS
SUCH AT THOSE AT THE ROSE BOWL TO HELP IMPLEMENT COMMUNITY-WIDE COMPOSTING PROGRAMS. Count on Community. 2.0 as a partner to make this happen .
The climate emergency is an existential threat to our kids, our familie s and ourselves. We all need to do our part.
Greg Apodaca
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Community 2.0
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How many of the Municipal Services Committee and the City Council have watched the movie "Kiss the Ground" or are aware that ONE TEASPOON of aerobically (with oxygen) produced compost has more microbes than there are humans on the earth? The City's decision to turn our "food scraps" into digestate and methane instead of healthy compost fails to to look at the necessity for both minerals and microbes in plant production. Just as human bodies need vitamins and minerals we also need the microbiome in our digestive system to be healthy.
In addition, Municipal Services wants us all to believe that local aerobic compost happens in very few places in Pasadena, is smelly and attracts flies and vermin .
I find it amazing that although City Staff have visited the composting facility at the Rose Bowl that it is not even mentioned in their report. Also, I understand that the Huntington composts food waste from their own facilities as well as accepting it from an outside youth group. Also, compostable materials are collected at the So. Pasadena Farmers Market. Now there is a possibility that MSC has not explored: Perhaps one or more of the 35 vendors at the Victory Park Farmers Market would be interested in collecting and hauling home said scraps and using them on their own farms.
I do not understand how my City can hire the CCC to train youth to identify the plants and learn to use the tools necessary to clear non-natives from Ha'amonga but can't find a way to do something similar with composting on school and park campuses .
Had hoped to take a photo of my not-home-compostable quart sized bag of kitchen waste as the lone occupant (before the winds) of my 100 gallon yard waste container but the City haulers emptied it before I got the chance ... pretty funny.
Sincerely!,
Nancy Busacca
To the future generations of all species. Know that there were many of us who did what we could -Dahr Jamail
01/24/2022
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